Athlete Christopher Bergland explains in an article in Psychology Today how the state of optimal performance, also known as " the zone, " paradoxically emerges when we don't strive for it.

运动员克里斯托弗·伯格兰（Christopher Bergland）在《今日心理学》的一篇文章中解释了当我们不努力时，最佳现状态（也称为“区域”）是如何矛盾地出现的。

Paradoxically, when central banks credibly promise to peg the price of an asset, they often need not intervene much to enforce the policy.

矛盾的是，当央行信誓旦旦地承诺会固定资产价格时，他们通常不需要太多干预就能执行这一政策。

He has a trick of " coming up missing" . The expression is not as contradictory as it sounds. I, for instance, never come up missing, for it is a known habit of mine to be absent from the Creek without explanation.

他有一“找不见”。这个不像听起来那么矛盾。例如，我从来没有失踪过，因为我的一个众所周知的习惯是不加解释地离开溪。

The objectives are not stably articulated by Donald Trump or the people around him, nor is any specific objective being articulated in a stable way without contradicting objectives also being articulated at the same time.

目标未被特朗普或其周围的人明确且稳定地出来，也没有任何具体目标在不与其他相互矛盾的目标同时提出的情况下，以稳定的方式被阐述。

We are more distinctly conscious that rude penances are out of the question for gentlemen in an enlightened age, and that mortal sin is not incompatible with an appetite for muffins.

我们更清楚地意识到，对于开明时代的绅士来说，粗鲁的忏悔是不可能的，而且大罪与对松饼的胃口不矛盾。

And what do you suppose you conceited female, said Mr Cruncher with unconscious inconsistency, that the worth of your prayers may be.

你这个自以为是的女人，克朗彻先生不自觉地前后矛盾地说，你认为你的祈祷值几个钱？

In this case there is a tendency to be indiscriminate in believing that two viewpoints are really not so contradictory, or that in a dispute between two persons there is right on both sides.

在这种情况下， 有一种倾向是不分青红皂白地认为两种观点其实不那么矛盾，或者认为在两人之间的争执中双方都有道理。

If you believed it to be impossible, I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far to hear it contradicted Miss Ben.

如果你认为这是不可能的，我不知道你会不辞辛劳地跑到这么远的地方来听这与本姐的说法相矛盾。